Monday, April 30, 2012

Celebrate May 1st, 2012!

 
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Celebrate May 1st 2012 
Internationalism - The Whole World Comes First!   BAsics 5:8

On May 1st, let's fight for and promote, live and celebrate a vision of internationalism, revolution, a whole new and far better world... and the vision, strategy and revolutionary communist leadership we have to get there:

Tuesday, May 1!0 am - come to Revolution Books for some orientation for the day (5726 Hollywood Blvd., just west of Wilton) and then go together to the protests; or Join the Internationalist Contingent at the May Day marches - look for the banner: INTERNATIONALISM - THE WHOLE WORLD COMES FIRST!, meet at Olympic & Broadway in downtown L.A. at 12 noon for the immigrant rights march, or 6th & Main, downtown L.A. at 2:30 pm for the Occupy convergence.

BA Everywhere - Imagine the Difference It Could Make
 
"May Day is the revolutionary holiday when people come together all over this tortured planet and declare their determination to fight for a world fit for human beings, a world free of all forms of exploitation and oppression, without slavery in any form.

"This May 1 takes place at a time when people have begun to raise their heads-the upheavals in the Arab nations, the Occupy movements, and now what has been unearthed by the murder of Trayvon Martin-but the revolutionary communist vision, movement and leadership of Bob Avakian is still not widely known. The BA Everywhere campaign is a very dynamic initiative to change all that, to make the vision and works of BA a powerful material force in the world-and we are aiming to make a major advance forward in this campaign to raise big money to get BA into all corners of society in the four days especially on May 1st. People are raising their heads in struggle-and they badly need the communist vision and strategy, and the leadership of BA and the Revolutionary Communist Party.

"On this holiday on which people all over the world celebrate revolution, we're going to get the most thoroughly internationalist vision and leadership that exists out to thousands, and actively engage hundreds and hundreds in learning about it and wrangling with it. BA has built on the internationalist foundations laid by Karl Marx and, based on the experience of the first wave of communist revolutions and continued wrangling with new developments in the world, strengthened those foundations and taken that understanding further. The quotes in this issue give a sense of that. Let's get these quotes way out there-and get into them yourselves. And go deeper into the readings from which they are drawn...

Connect With and Contribute to This BA Everywhere! Campaign

"Whatever you can do and wherever you are, you can make your time, effort and energies count! Your creativity, participation and support is needed to make a truly big difference in the world right now."  As part of the BA Everywhere campaign, a BAsics Bus Tour is launching from Atlanta, Georgia headed for the deep south in early May.  Read more about it [here].  Donate and help raise funds towards the $20,000 needed for the tour.  Contribute towards sponsoring a rider for two weeks ($1,400 per participant is needed).  All of us together across the country can accomplish this, if you and many others are joining in.
 

Donate to the BAsics Bus Tour and the BA Everywhere! campaign - see the PayPal button in the top right-hand corner.

Read more [here] about 12 ways you can join the movement for revolution right now!


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